Convention Collection (page 14)

Bankers Convention 1904
Bankers Conventions, to Westpoint, N.Y. Guests of Charles W. Morse aboard C.W. Morse. Four men standing on the deck of the C.W. Morse at a bankers convention in West Point, N

Revolution / Louis Trial
Louis XVI appears before the convention to hear the charges against him

British gas mask
A British soldier wearing a respirator or gas-mask with an air-valve on the top. The Germans first used poisonous gas at Ypres on April 22nd 1915

Ladies at a Christmas ball, c. 1902
Convention; an illustration of evening dress for ladies in 1902

Republican Outbreak - 2
A convention of the Montagnards - Republican extremists - at the Conservatoire des Arts & Metiers, Paris, leads to trouble with authorities

Republican Outbreak - 1
A convention of the Montagnards - Republican extremists - at the Conservatoire des Arts & Metiers, Paris, leads to trouble with authorities

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Goddess of Reason
Chaumette proposes to the Convention a Goddess of Reason and a reasonable-looking lady is carried in procession through the streets of Paris. Date: 10 November 1793

Couthon at Lyon
Couthon is sent by the Convention to suppress the insurrection in Lyon : he takes the city, and orders aristocratic homes to be destroyed

Goddess of Reason - 1
By order of the Convention, the cathedral of Notre-Dame is transformed into a Temple de la Raison, where a Goddess of Reason is to be worshipped

Committee Public Safety
This committee is invested by the Convention with almost dictatorial power : made up of extremists such as Danton and Robespierre, it becomes an instrument of terror

Police at the I Count climate change rally in London
Ashley Cooper / SpecialistStock

Protestors at the I Count climate change rally in London
Ashley Cooper / SpecialistStock

Posters at the I Count climate change rally in London
Ashley Cooper / SpecialistStock

steward at the I Count climate change rally in London
Ashley Cooper / SpecialistStock

1st Republican Convent
The first Republican Convention Held " Under the Oaks" at Jackson, Michigan. A large crowd has gathered to hear the speakers who are raised up on a stage

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